Before the Demon Kaioh, the ruler of the Land of Asura, Kenshiro helplessly collapsed. But Akashachi and his band of pirates fought hard and risked their lives to save Kenshiro.

Akashachi: Shachi, you've grown up.

Shachi: Father, hear my true heart!

For the first time, Shachi's true intent was revealed. With Kaioh enraged again, Shachi has hidden Kenshiro, and desperately defended him. Is there no light in the century's end? Will Kenshiro and the legend of the savior of the century's end ever rise again?

The Fatal Meeting Between Hyoh and Ken!
The Elder Brother Doesn't Know of His Younger Brother!!

Shachi continues to drag the coffin through a desert. He believes that Kenshiro will return, and will defeat Kaioh.

At his castle, Kaioh stands alone, thinking about what happened during his previous encounter with Kenshiro and Shachi. An Asura runs in, but hides when he sees Kaioh releasing his evil fighting spiritual energy everywhere. Kaioh says that if the North Star clan survives, his true age will never arrive. He is determined to wipe Kenshiro off the face of the Earth, even if it means he must devour God.

His energy rips the room apart. Kaioh asks the Asura where Lin is, and the Asura says they're searching for her. There have been no signs of her outside, so he believes she must still be inside the castle somewhere. Kaioh says Lin bears the blood of the celestial emperor, so she must be found.

Elsewhere, Lin wakes up, and pulls herself out of the water. She recalls what happened, and how she, Ken and Kaioh fell. But she then hears someone approaching. Two Asura are walking towards her, talking about how they've had to deal with a lot of strange guys lately -like those pirates, and that Shachi guy who saved Kenshiro.

Lin is pleased that Shachi helped Kenshiro, but she realizes she's going to be spotted. She starts to run for it.

She gets to a gate, but can't get through it. But she finds a ladder nearby, and climbs it. As she gets to the top, an Asura sees her.

She grabs a mace from the wall, and throws it at the Asura's face. The Asura isn't happy she's done this to his handsome face, and lunges at her.

Lin trips him, and goes on the run again. But she is soon surrounded by Asuras.

The guy Lin hit says that before he hands her over to Lord Kaioh, he'll rough her up a bit. He goes to strike her, but then the door behind Lin opens, and a woman walks out, asking what's going on. The Asuras immediately stop when they see her. The woman, Sayaka, tells Lin to come into her room. One of the Asuras says they're acting under Kaioh's orders, and his orders are absolute, even if she is Kaioh's little sister.

Sayaka says she can't ignore what's happening here, and tells Lin to come inside. The Asura tries to enter, but Sayaka slams the door in his face.

Sayaka tells Lin she can relax here. Sayaka introduces herself, and wonders what her brother is plotting. She's certain Kaioh has caused Lin some hardships. Lin thinks about her encounters with Kaioh, and gets frightened. Sayaka comforts her, and apologizes on her brother's behalf.

She explains that her brother has been taken in by the dark world, but she thinks that, someday, he'll go back to the way he was. When that happens, peace will come to the Land of Asura. A carrier pigeon then arrives, and Sayaka takes the note from it. She reads it, and finds out that Hyoh is on the way here.

Elsewhere, Hyoh has entered a village, and goes to see a jeweler. The jeweler passes Hyoh what he'd requested -lots of jewels and gems, which the jeweler is certain Sayaka will love. Hyoh thanks him, and tells him to come by his castle later -he can have whatever he wishes.

As Hyoh rides off, the jeweler thinks that it's sad that Hyoh, a man who understands care, love and compassion, is in love with Demon Kaioh's sister. As Hyoh rides on, he thinks about Sayaka, and wants her to be at his side, to heal the pain in his heart he's felt since defeating his own master.

Elsewhere, some Asuras have setup a security checkpoint, and are looking for Kenshiro. Shachi walks up, and explains that he has the body of a friend in the coffin, who he wants to bury in a nearby village. The Asura sees that Shachi isn't Kenshiro, and lets him pass.

But then he tells him to stop. He wants the coffin checked, and orders some other Asuras to do it. With no other option, Shachi has to go on the offensive.

Shachi says he guesses he has no choice now, and says he's a Rakshasa, who devours Asuras. He tells them that the person in the coffin is Kenshiro, the one they're after. Nearby, another person appears, but stays back. The leader Asura says that this is great, as both Kenshiro and the Rakshasa have walked into their hands. He orders his men to attack.

Shachi starts taking them out, blowing them apart. But he stumbles, as the injuries he got when facing Kaioh begin to take their toll on his body.

He is almost hit by an Asura's attack. The Asura says he'll get him this time, and attacks again, but his weapons get broken before they can hit Shachi.

The Asuras don't know what's going on, as someone else suddenly appears, and starts attacking them. The leader Asura tries to attack...

...but gets sliced from behind. Shachi asks the man what his name is, and is told it's Black Yaksha. He tells Shachi to protect the man in that coffin at all costs, and then leaps away.

Later on, Shachi arrives in a town. He stops to rest, and thinks he just needs to try and get a vehicle now. But then some Asuras appear, and tell everyone to get out of the way -supreme leader Hyoh is coming through!

Shachi bows down along with the rest of the rags and villagers. Hyoh rides down the street, but thinks this will be alright -Hyoh won't notice them.

However, Hyoh stops in front of Shachi. As the other rags flee, he tells Shachi that he smells of blood. He demands him to show his face.

Shachi does so, and says he's just a nameless rag. Hyoh thinks he's a liar, as his eyes aren't those of a rag -they are shining, and alive. He wants to know what the coffin is for, so Shachi tells him that his dead friend, another rag, is inside it. One of the Asuras with Hyoh opens the coffin up.

Hyoh sees Kenshiro, but doesn't recognize him. Shachi says that, as they can see, it's just the body of a dead rag. Hyoh continues to look at Kenshiro.

One of the Asuras says the man in the coffin has no heartbeat, and is definitely dead. But his skin looks pretty good for someone who's meant to be dead. The Asuras ask Shachi if this man really is dead. Hyoh tells them to wait. He instead tells Shachi that he'll ignore his dead friend, but he wants to know what Shachi's eyes gleam like they do.

Shachi says he was born with these eyes, but if Hyoh doesn't like them... he pulls down his hood, and says he'll offer one of his eyes to him. Before anyone can stop him, Shachi rips out one of his own eyes, and presents it to Hyoh. He asks him if one is not enough.

He's about to rip his other eye out, but Hyoh stops him. He asks Shachi about the man in the coffin -what does that man mean to him? Shachi says everything, even if his own body gets torn apart, that man is everything he must protect. Hyoh thinks that man must be no ordinary corpse, for him to go that far.

He tells Shachi to take good care of him, and then leaves. Shachi thinks that Hyoh is completely different from Kaioh, and wonders if this is the power of the North Star clan. As Hyoh rides on, he thinks Kaioh would laugh and call him soft if he told him about this.

Hyoh's scar suddenly throbs, and he can see that man in the coffin. He then sees his younger self, and that light... what does it have to do with that man?

Hyoh turns around, but that man he just saw, along with the coffin he had, are gone. He thinks about what Jukei told him about Kenshiro being his brother, and wonders if that man in the coffin was him. But he then smiles.

He thinks there are only two men he could ever call brother: the late Han, and the North Star lapis lazuli fist's ultimate successor: Kaioh. Kenshiro stands against the North Star lapis lazuli fist as its greatest enemy!

NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW

Demon Kaioh plots to eliminate the North Star clan! Wake up, Kenshiro -let the blood of succession boil! Next time, on Fist of the North Star 2: "Demon Kaioh's Choice! Cold Blood Runs Through my Body!!"